Sentences with phrase «impacted by oil»

««The Greatest Generation» was shaped by the Great Depression and Baby Boomers were impacted by the oil crises throughout the 1970s.

Supporters of this and similar measures have said that the measures were proposed on the premise that home values are negatively impacted by oil and gas development.

One of the challenges Richard sees in the market right now is that the region is heavily impacted by the oil downturn and the aftermath of the Fort McMurray wildfire.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to spend 20 minutes a day reading up on how the real estate world is impacted by oil prices.

Contacts in Louisiana have given me numerous, unconfirmed reports of cameras and cell phones being confiscated, scientists with monitoring equipment being turned away, and local reporters blocked from access to public lands impacted by the oil spill.

«We have also asked the U.S. Small Business Administration to activate all appropriate federal disaster declaration clauses that would enable the SBA to assist the small businesses in the state that will be impacted by the oil spill...

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And recessions are often presaged by certain signals: rising jobless claims; falling home sales; an inverted yield curve; wage pressures that impact corporate margins; exogenous shocks, including oil spikes; or destabilizing valuations in key asset classes.

The Panel excluded any discussion of the environmental impacts of oil sands development, although they did allow the consideration of increased oil prices generated by the pipeline on the taxes and royalties associated with forecast future oil sands production.

If you're in the oil transportation business, these are negative impacts, whether you move oil by rail or by pipeline.

A recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics showed that 18 percent of businesses expect a negative impact from declining oil prices — reflecting the percentage of industries that directly benefit from oil and natural gas sales.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

«While we are seeing solid U.S. fuel margins year to date, this quarter's results were negatively impacted by volatility in the crude oil market, particularly in the southwest US,» he said in a news release.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Iran is looking to increase production even more by the end of the year, so any supply cut will have to be significant to really impact oil price.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

Changes in power costs due to falling oil prices, meanwhile, can vary considerably by market and region, and, in many markets, gasoline prices are so inflated by taxation that the impact of lower oil prices for consumers is considerably dampened.

A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

The net impact of the disagreements disrupts Baghdad's efforts to bring new investments to the oil and gas sector in areas affected by three years of domestic strife.

The worst storm to hit the U.S. since 2004 and by some estimates the largest rain - storm in U.S. history, Harvey has had a profound impact on the nation's largest oil - producing and oil - refining region.

And though exports of oil have increased, helping to shrink the U.S. trade deficit in energy by half from fourth quarter 2016 to fourth quarter 2017, the improvement has had negligible impact on the much larger overall U.S. trade deficit, which grew during that period.

If I take Keystone XL out of the mix, in my toy model, I haven't impacted the cost of the marginal barrel of oil sands because I haven't changed the cost of a barrel shipped by rail, I've simply reduced the profit on the barrels which would be shipped via KXL by forcing them to be shipped to market in a more expensive way.

Although the fall in oil prices will negatively impact the debt - to - GDP in the short term, the target of 25 per cent by 2021 - 22 appears achievable.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

It's been raised in an expert panel report on Environmental and Health Impacts of the Oil Sands Industry, commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada.

For eastern refiners, it's not clear that access to 1.1 million barrels of oil by pipeline will have a large impact on volatility, although a wider market will always lead to some reduction in volatility.

If the construction of Energy East also does not put significant new supply into the world market, it will not have a material impact on the revenues collected by other oil producing nations either.

While provinces other than Alberta are projected to benefit, modelling by the Canadian Energy Research Institute projects that 94 per cent of the GDP impact of oil sands development will occur within Alberta.

This significant downward revision to growth in 2013 will have a major impact on government revenues, which will be only worsened by the fall in oil and gas prices over the last 12 months.

With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.

The rising cost of oil, its impact on global warming, the geopolitical risks associated with oil dependency (especially as fuel for automobiles), followed more recently by the rise of cost effective alternatives presents a «change the world» opportunity for Apple.

The negative impact of lower oil prices will gradually be mitigated by a stronger U.S. economy, a weaker Canadian dollar, and the Bank's monetary policy response.

Alberta is one of the prairie oil - rich provinces which have been drastically impacted by low oil prices as sentiment fell to 58.6, the lowest since June 2013.

Back in 2014 — when oil prices were still around $ 100 — the Eagle Ford's economic impact was estimated at $ 123 billion in the 21 - county area — an all - time high to - date, according to a June 2017 report by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute for Economic Development.

For example, every $ 0.10 per pound the price of copper changes, it impacts the company's operating cash flow by $ 400 million, while every $ 5 per barrel the price of oil changes impacts cash flow by $ 170 million.

Just - released data from the U.S. Energy information Administration (EIA) continue to show the formidable impact on global energy trade patterns caused by the surge in U.S. crude oil production.

On Thursday, fellow prairie province Saskatchewan entered into the war, announcing it will consider limits on its out - of - province oil shipments if B.C. continues its efforts to delay the pipeline expansion project.While Saskatchewan likely would not be shipping oil on the proposed pipeline, the province has been negatively impacted by the projects continued delays.

«Rising domestic socioeconomic stresses in Russia — caused by dwindling oil revenues and the impact of Western sanctions — will fuel President Putin's anti-western rhetoric and increase the likelihood of him seeking foreign «distractions»,» Alastair Newton, senior political analyst at Nomura, said in a note Wednesday.

Of the 15 companies covered by the Daily Oil Bulletin, nine made no mention of the impact of the new NDP government.

Market participants continued to weigh the supply - side impact of production cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other major oil producers in late 2016 and, on the other hand, the ability of the US shale oil industry to maintain output in the face of lower prices.

Oman, the poorest Gulf Arab country on the basis of economic output per person, was cut for the first time by Moody's Investors Service, which cited the negative impact of lower oil prices on government finances, economic performance and balance - of - payments.

Mexico also continued to make responsible fiscal adjustments by cutting its budget to cope with the impact of lower oil prices.

REGIONAL SUPERSECTION — SHALE OIL BOOM RATTLES GCC ECONOMIES By Gordon Platt As US shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long term.

also impacted by weaker - than - expected data on durable goods orders for May and stalled oil prices.

Investors» sentiment was also impacted by weaker - than - expected data on durable goods orders for May and stalled oil prices.

In the aftermath, as many as a third of US oil refineries, many of which are located in the area around Houston, were estimated to have been impacted by flooding or supply disruptions.

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